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12 September 2025
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Trump supporters say Jesus only welcome in US if he ‘comes here legally’ 29JAN25
DOES this woman even know who Jesus is? Absolutely amazing someone would say this! She has to be one of the founders of the alt-jesus magat cult. From The London Economic.....
Trump supporters say Jesus only welcome in US if he ‘comes here legally’
'As long as he went through the proper channels...'
It seems like Trump supporters’ hostility to immigrants extends to the son of God himself, Jesus Christ.
In a video from comedian Walter Masterson shared on the day of the US election, he spoke to MAGA-loving Trump fans about immigration.
One of the conversations in the hour-long video shared on YouTube was with a couple who were arguing people born in the US should not automatically get citizenship.
The woman said people need to go through the “proper channels” to get citizenship, no matter where they’re born.
Masterson then pointed out that someone going to a foreign land and giving birth is pretty much the exact story of the birth of Jesus Christ.
As the debate continued into where Jesus was born – and whether he was an immigrant himself – the couple were then asked whether they would be happy accepting Jesus into the US if he were alive today.
The woman responded: “As long as he went through the proper [channels.]
At this point Masterson couldn’t hide his indignation, pointing out just how mad the woman’s argument was.
The exchange was recently re-shared on X by Masterson, who captioned the post: “Jesus Christ is only welcome if he comes here legally.”
11 November 2024
THE 14TH AMENDMENT OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION & Mayhem erupts in the U.S. Capitol as Congress certified electoral votes & INSIDE THE U.S. CAPITAL AT THE HEIGHT OF THE SIEGE 6&16JAN21
WHY is the 14th Amendment important? Because if enough members of congress actually honor their oath to uphold and protect the U.S. Constitution donald drumpf / trump will not be sworn in as the 47th President unless 2/3rds of congress votes to allow him to take office. Here is the text of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, "Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability." We all need to e mail our representative and senators no matter what political party they belong to and DEMAND they vote against the certification of the states Electoral College votes for the 2024 Presidential election to prevent donald trump to be declared president-elect per Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, I did......
The Passage
After Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in April 1865, President Andrew Johnson was left with the complex process of bringing the former Confederate states back into the Union after the Civil War and emancipation of all slaves. While Johnson, a Democrat and former slaveholder from Tennessee, supported emancipation, he had a different view from Congress, which had a Republican majority, on what the start of the Reconstruction era should look like. Johnson tended to show more leniency toward former Confederate states as they were incorporated back into the Union.
Many northerners were angry when the newly elected southern state legislatures, which were mostly headed by former Confederate leaders, enacted black codes. Black codes were restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and guarantee that they are available as cheap labor for white planters. This led Congress to enforce the new Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery, by creating the Civil Rights Act of 1866 to protect the rights of African Americans. President Johnson vetoed the bill, but Congress successfully overrode his veto and made it into law in April of 1866. However, some Republicans in Congress thought another amendment was needed to support this law under the Constitution.
At the end of April, Representative Thaddeus Stevens proposed combining several different legislations, including civil rights for African Americans, how to apportion representatives in Congress, and how to punish the Confederate States and handle the Civil War debt, into one constitutional amendment. Both houses of Congress approved the amendment, and it was submitted to the states for ratification. President Johnson was clear that he opposed the Fourteenth Amendment, but both houses had Republican majorities and therefore had the power to pass the amendment despite his veto. Southern states were also reluctant to ratify the amendment, but Congress ensured that they would do so by requiring ratification of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments for the states to regain representation in Congress.
On July 9, 1868, Louisiana and South Carolina ratified the amendment, and the Fourteenth Amendment achieved the necessary three-fourths majority to be added to the Constitution. However, there is debate over the official date of ratification because before these two states’ approvals, Ohio and New Jersey had “withdrawn” their approvals. This was not provided for in the Constitution, so there was question over whether these withdrawals were legitimate. As this controversy occurred over the next two weeks, both Alabama and Georgia ratified the Fourteenth Amendment, and Congress declared the amendment a valid part of the Constitution.
Amendment Text
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.
Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Section 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
Section 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
Interpretation
The opening sentence of Section 1, also known as the Citizenship Clause, clearly outlines race-blind citizenship based on birth and naturalization. The next clause, known as the Privileges and Immunities Clause, expands the civil and legal rights of all American citizens by protecting them from states violating their rights instead of just the federal government. The third clause, or Due Process clause, echoes the sentiments of the Fifth Amendment, which provides a number of rights related to criminal and civil legal proceedings, and applies this requirement to states as well as the federal government. Finally, the Equal Protection Clause prohibits state governments from discriminating against Black Americans by providing equal protection for all citizens under the law.
Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment repeals the three-fifths clause of the Constitution, which counted slaves as three-fifths of a person as a means to apportion representation in Congress. Regardless of race, each citizen is counted as one whole person, and all male citizens over the age of 21 are granted the right to vote. The section punishes states that do not allow all males over age 21 to vote by reducing their population for representation in Congress.
Section 3 disqualifies any person from public office who previously took an oath as a federal or state officer, engaged in insurrection or rebellion, unless there is a two-thirds majority in Congress. This section intended to prevent former leaders of the Confederacy from regaining political power.
Section 4 confirms the legitimacy of all public debt acquired by Congress in an effort to put an end to rebellion or insurrection. It also states that neither the United States nor any states will repay war debts sustained to aid rebellion or compensate former slave owners for the emancipation of their slaves
Section 5, the final section of the Fourteenth Amendment, like the Thirteenth Amendment, gives Congress the power to pass laws to enforce the provisions within the Amendment.
Major Court Cases
Prior to the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, in the infamous 1857 Case Dred Scott v. Sandford, Dred Scott, born a slave, sued his owner for freedom after traveling with him to Illinois, a free territory. The Court concluded that Scott would remain a slave because African Americans, whether enslaved or free, were not citizens and therefore were not granted the power to sue in the federal courts. In 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment overturned the Dred Scott decision by granting citizenship to all individuals born in the United States, regardless of race.
Most Supreme Court Cases involving the Fourteenth Amendment concern due process and equal protection under the law.
In early decisions involving the Fourteenth Amendment, the Supreme Court infrequently applied its protections on a state and local level. In Plessy v. Ferguson, a 1896 Case, the Court held that segregation was acceptable according to the Constitution as long as the facilities were “equal.” Nearly sixty years later, in Brown v. Board of Education, the Court overturned that decision and ruled that separate is inherently unequal, so public school segregation based on race violates the Fourteenth Amendment.
The Court’s decision in Mapp v. Ohio, a 1961 Court Case, determined what would occur if police obtained evidence from an illegal search or seizure. Prior to the case, the evidence could still be collected, but the police would be condemned. However, the Court held that evidence collected from an unlawful search should be excluded from an individual’s trial, citing the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
In later decisions, the Court has used the Fourteenth Amendment more creatively. In Roe v. Wade, a 1973 Case, the Court determined that Americans have a right to privacy, which is violated by statutes that ban abortions. In the 2000 Case Bush v. Gore, George W. Bush’s lawyers successfully argued that the Florida recount that would decide the presidency violated the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause because different standards of counting were used in different municipalities, eliminating the recount. In Obergefell v. Hodges, a 2015 Case, the Court legalized same-sex marriage across the nation using the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses.
Controversies
Modern controversy surrounding the Fourteenth Amendment is related to its meaning and its scope of power or overall effectiveness today. First, the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment is not necessarily straightforward, apparent by the fact that the Supreme Court’s interpretations of certain clauses, such as the Equal Protection Clause, have changed significantly over time. Second, many people question how much power Congress has to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment. Similarly, others point out that the Amendment may not be as impactful today as we think, considering that people of all races, genders, and abilities do not necessarily have “equal” protection under the law in practice.
Why Care?
The Fourteenth Amendment is one of the most important amendments of the Constitution, outlining many rights and protections guaranteed to citizens of the United States. The Amendment transformed our democracy and has been the foundation for many pivotal Supreme Court decisions. While many may not recognize it, the Fourteenth Amendment is one of the most relevant amendments in Americans’ lives today.
The nation on Wednesday witnessed a grave breach of its democratic traditions. For the first time in American history, supporters of the losing presidential candidate have forcibly disrupted the official counting of electoral votes. John Yang reports.
At 2:12 p.m. on Jan. 6, supporters of President Trump began climbing through a window they had smashed on the northwest side of the U.S. Capitol. “Go! Go! Go!” someone shouted as the rioters, some in military gear, streamed in. It was the start of the most serious attack on the Capitol since the War of 1812. The mob coursed through the building, enraged that Congress was preparing to make Trump’s electoral defeat official. “Drag them out! … Hang them out!” rioters yelled at one point, as they gathered near the House chamber.
Officials in the House and Senate secured the doors of their respective chambers, but lawmakers were soon forced to retreat to undisclosed locations. Five people died on the grounds that day, including a Capitol police officer. In all, more than 50 officers were injured.
To reconstruct the pandemonium inside the Capitol, The Washington Post examined text messages, photos and hundreds of videos, some of which were exclusively obtained. By synchronizing the footage and locating some of the camera angles within a digital 3-D model of the building, The Post was able to map the rioters’ movements and assess how close they came to lawmakers — in some cases feet apart or separated only by a handful of vastly outnumbered police officers. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK
21 October 2024
WHY IS DONALD DRUMPF / TRUMP OBSESSED WITH ARNOLD PALMERS PENIS? Trump fixates on Arnold Palmer as ‘all man’ in showers during profane rally
EVERYONE remembers drumpf / trump being obsessed with his opponents penises during 2016 republican primaries, I will not repeat his childish insults, but now he seems to be fascinated, maybe even envious of Arnold Palmer's penis. Just listen to drumpf's / trump's hommage to Arnold Palmer's "manhood"at Latrobe, PA, Palmer's home town. Article from the Washington Post, video's from AP and ABC....
Trump kicks off a Pennsylvania rally by talking about Arnold Palmer’s genitalia
What did Trump say about Arnold Palmer: Former president makes lewd remarks during Pa. rally
Trump fixates on Arnold Palmer as ‘all man’ in showers during profane rally
Turning his attention to his rival after a meandering start, Donald Trump used profanity to insult Vice President Kamala Harris.
Updated October 19, 2024 at 10:03 p.m. EDT|Published October 19, 2024 at 9:53 p.m. EDT
LATROBE, Pa. — Seventeen days from the election, here in arguably the most decisive swing state, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump spent the first 10 minutes of his speech without mentioning politics.
“Arnold Palmer was all man. And I say that in all due respect to women and I love women. But this guy, this guy, this is a guy that was all man. This man was strong and tough. And I refused to say it, but when he took showers with the other pros, they came out of there, they said, ‘Oh my God, that’s unbelievable,’” Trump said.
“I had to say it,” Trump continued.
At about 10 minutes, the digression about Palmer lasted roughly as long as Vice President Kamala Harris’s entire speech at a get-out-the-vote event earlier Saturday in Detroit. Trump’s speech was filled with asides, abrupt changes of subject and profane and personal attacks.
Trump has expressed frustration with his accelerated campaign schedule and shown impatience with his prepared scripts and advisers encouraging him to stick to issues such as the economy and immigration. Trump had other subjects in mind Saturday and spoke freely about a variety of disconnected themes.
He interrupted his own message about the border to praise Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) and discuss the color of billionaire donor and surrogate Elon Musk’s MAGA hat. He also gave a shout-out to legendary center fielder Willie Mays, who died in June, and railed against Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). He made up a story about an imaginary cartel leader named Jose Rodriguez using an imaginary phone app to call the U.S. government about smuggling people over the border.
When he finally focused on his opponent in the presidential race, Trump turned vulgar.
“You’re a shit vice president,” he said to cheers. Some in the crowd shouted out, echoing the profanity.
Moments later, Trump asked the crowd about his plane: “How did the flyover look? Good?”
As Trump called Harris a “radical left Marxist,” a woman in the crowd yelled: “She’s a f---ing liar!”
Trump acknowledged the indiscretion while explaining he had received a letter from evangelical leader Franklin Graham encouraging him to refrain from swearing.
“You can’t put the same emphasis,” he said. “So tonight I broke my rule.”
At another point, as Trump criticized the Biden administration, he said: “Everything they touch turns to —”
“S---!” the crowd responded.
Trump frequently meandered during his hour-plus speech. As he railed about Harris replacing President Joe Biden on the Democratic ticket, he paused and commented on his hair, as he looked at the screen displaying his live speech. “Excuse me, I’m going to recomb my hair, do you mind?” he said. “I’m going to recomb my hair, Mr. Future Senator,” he added, a reference to U.S. Senate candidate David McCormick of Pennsylvania.
Trump started the week spending 39 minutes of a town hall playing music instead of speaking. He has jumped abruptly between topics in recent appearances and on social media. In Latrobe, he compared his proposed tax exemptions to the invention of the paper clip.
Harris on Saturday questioned Trump’s coherence.
“Have you noticed he tends to go off script and ramble?” she said in Georgia. “And generally for the life of him cannot finish a thought. And he has called it ‘the weave.’ But I think we here will call it nonsense.”
The rally also touched on familiar themes for Trump, including his vow to impose “massive tariffs” and his vilification of undocumented immigrants, falsely portraying them as mostly criminals from “insane asylums and mental institutions.”
He disparaged foreigners in inflammatory terms, comparing immigration with an “invasion” and saying he would “liberate” the country. He misrepresented Immigration and Customs Enforcement statistics to falsely claim thousands are “on the loose,” and he repeated his pledge to launch a mass, militarized deportation operation modeled on a 1950s program.
Trump at one point returned to the topic of Palmer when favorably remarking on the appearance of his expanded security detail.
“Look, people as far as you can see. They give you a little extra security nowadays. I got more machine guns than I’ve ever seen. Look at these guys,” he remarked.
The crowd began to cheer, “USA!”
“They look like Arnold Palmer. They look like Arnold. Can’t look better than Arnold,” he said.
Maegan Vazquez contributed to this report.
14 October 2024
26 August 2024
Jon Stewart on Why Trump Wants Biden Back So Badly He's Reusing His Old Attacks | The Daily Show 12AUG24
Jon Stewart on Why Trump Wants Biden Back So Badly He's Reusing His Old Attacks | The Daily Show
Donald Trump thought he was cruising to victory against Joe Biden, but now he's facing a hard fight against Kamala Harris. Jon Stewart looks at Trump's half-hearted attempts to adjust to the new challenge and wonders if he's hatching a devious plan to help Biden take back the nomination, January 6th style.
13 August 2024
The Lawyer or the Conman - A Randy Rainbow Song Parody 12AUG24
The Lawyer or the Conman - A Randy Rainbow Song Parody
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Parody of “The Farmer and the Cowman” from Oklahoma! (Music by Richard Rodgers & Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II)
Parody Lyrics by Randy Rainbow
Song Produced, Orchestrated, Mixed, Mastered by: Michael J Moritz Jr @michaeljmoritz
Vocal Arrangement - Brett Boles
Piano, Synths - Michael J Moritz Jr
Guitars/Banjos - Dylan Kondor
Engineer - Billy LaGuardia
Vocals - Randy Rainbow
08 June 2024
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25 May 2024
24 May 2024
Trump Shares ‘Unified Reich’ Campaign Video During Lunch Break 21MAI24
Trump Shares ‘Unified Reich’ Campaign Video During Lunch Break
The 30-second video was shared on his Truth Social account while he was on a lunch break from his hush-money trial.
Donald Trump’s Truth Social account has boosted a campaign video that spoke of a “unified Reich” in America if he reclaims the White House in the November election.
The 30-second video, which was finally taken down Tuesday after it remained up for 15 hours despite growing outrage, features a series of headlines predicting “what happens after Donald Trump wins,” with answers like, “Economy booms!” and “15 Million Illegal Aliens Deported.” One headline referenced the “creation of a unified Reich,” using a term meaning “realm” or “empire” that is usually associated with Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich in Nazi Germany.
The Biden campaign reacted to the video with alarm on Monday night, with campaign spokesman James Singer accusing Trump of “parroting Mein Kampf” in a statement posted to X.
“America, stop scrolling and pay attention. Donald Trump is not playing games; he is telling America exactly what he intends to do if he regains power: rule as a dictator over a ‘unified reich,’” Singer wrote.
Amid the controversy, Trump’s campaign said Trump himself had nothing to do with the video and that it had been inadvertently shared by a staffer while the former president was on lunch break from his hush-money trial in Manhattan on Monday.
“This was not a campaign video, it was created by a random account online and reposted by a staffer who clearly did not see the word, while the President was in court,” campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement, adding that “the real extremist is Joe Biden” for having supposedly “turned his back on Israel and the Jewish people.”
Trump social media video references 'unified reich'
Former president Donald Trump shared a video May 20 on Truth Social suggesting his reelection would bring 'unified Reich'. Trump’s ‘reich’ video, Biden’s pandemic and political smoke detectors
By Philip Bump
May 21, 2024 at 10:09 a.m. EDT
Mini-gaffes generate social media attention and validate preconceptions.
What first caught my eye in the video that was posted to Donald Trump’s account at Truth Social, the social media platform he owns, was an imaginary newspaper headline celebrating the deportation of immigrants should he win this November’s election.
Below that, a date: 28 July 1914 — 11 November 1918.
You will perhaps notice that a second Trump term would unfold not in the 1910s but the 2020s. If you are particularly attuned to world history, you may also notice that the indicated dates are actually the dates marking the beginning and end of World War I. In fact, you can see a mention of World War I in the background text at upper left; it mentions that the conflict is often abbreviated as “WWI.”
That same text snippet is also visible in the “peace through strength” bit of the video, too.
These are pretty clear hallmarks of placeholder text from stock footage. The advantage of newspapers over video is that you can pack a lot more information into a small space, but this means that those showing newspapers (or magazines or books or whatever) on screen have to come up with dummy text to make the thing look real. In movies, they’ll have someone write something that looks real but doesn’t draw attention. At other times, someone will just pull from some similarly inoffensive source — like, say, an encyclopedia entry on a global conflict.
There’s just one problem: Sometimes those entries contain snippets that might be overlooked until someone looks closely. Like a mention of a “unified reich.”
It’s not hard to see why that word, on that screen, would generate attention. “What’s next for America” followed by a hard-to-read sentence that ends in “reich,” a word used to describe the empire envisioned by Nazi Germany? Coming from Donald Trump?
Looking more closely, though, it’s clear that the video isn’t saying that “what’s next” is an American reich. The full sentence says that “industrial strength significantly increased … driven by the creation of a unified reich.” This, too, is a reference to world history, and the evolution of German power in the decades before World War I. That this is just more dummy text is made more obvious by its inclusion in the final page of “newsprint” shown in the video.
The Trump campaign asserts that it didn’t make the video but, instead, that it was made by a supporter and reshared by the former president’s account. (It’s not clear whether Trump himself posted the video; it was published during a break in his Manhattan criminal trial.)
Such things have happened before. In 2015, Trump blamed a social media post insulting Iowans on a “young intern.” The following February, he reshared an unattributed quote from the fascist leader Benito Mussolini. That July, his campaign spent days dealing with the fallout of his resharing an image including antisemitic tropes. Then, as now, it seemed more likely that Trump or his team were insufficiently attentive to what they were sharing than that they were intentionally sending a weird, coded wink to their followers. And then, as now, doing so triggered a flurry of criticisms and suggestions that the shared material was deeply revealing of intent.
The Trump video arrived on the heels of a similar flare-up for President Biden. During a speech in Michigan over the weekend, Biden offered an anecdote intended to show his affection for the city of Detroit and its leadership.
“When I was vice president,” Biden said, “things were kind of bad during the pandemic, and what happened was Barack said to me, ‘Go to Detroit and help fix it.’ Well, poor mayor, he spent more time with me than he ever thought he was going to have to.”
There was a pandemic when Barack Obama was president; in 2009, the H1N1 influenza virus reached that status and Biden was tasked with the government’s response. (This was a common point of comparison among Trump supporters during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic.) But Biden misspoke, as the White House transcript indicates; he meant “recession.”
Fox News wrote a story about the mistake, as did the New York Post and other right-wing outlets.
There are two advantages for partisans in elevating such stories. The more obvious is to embarrass their opponents. The other is slightly more subtle, using such stories to reinforce existing assumptions about the other party’s presidential candidate.
To his critics, Biden’s gaffe is the smoke that proves the fire: He is insufficiently mentally capable to serve as president for another four years. To Trump’s critics, the “reich” video plays the same role: It shows that he is sympathetic to the fascism that defined Nazi Germany — or at least, his supporters are.
We live in a moment where this sort of smoke detection, if you will, is rampant. It’s not new that political candidates and their supporters would seek out gaffes on the part of their opponents. It is new, though, that so many people would be engaged in the gaffe-seeking economy, in serving as smoke detectors that might demonstrate the presence of a conflagration. Anyone, these days, is empowered to have an international audience in the manner that was once reserved for substantial news organizations, so anyone interested in undermining a candidate for president can pore over videos or transcripts and pick out things that might serve as that smoke or otherwise embarrass the candidate. And there are rewards for doing so: the tainted, jinxed currency of social media attention.
Americans have valid concerns about how Trump intends to wield power, should he return to the White House, and about how Biden’s age might affect his job performance. Those points of weakness increase the social value of finding proof of those flaws and — in classic supply-and-demand fashion — increase the supply of examples.
We are a nation littered with political smoke detectors, constantly blaring. The type of smoke detectors, mind you, where you can’t simply take out the battery.
Update: A person who does motion graphics and video editing work emailed with a link to the stock footage used in the video Trump shared. This person noted that they’d used the same template recently, noting that the designer of the Trump video had apparently not swapped out the filler text included by default.
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